Mark Thompson

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Mark provides practical and entertaining insights, and customizes keynotes for your client using actual video clips and down-to-earth, real-life examples for his presentations from Richard Branson, Charles Schwab, and Jack Welch, to Maya Angelou and the Dalai Lama -- from innovative entrepreneurs, CEOs and billionaires to Nobel laureates, Olympians and Academy award winners.

Mark is a veteran business executive, bestselling author, executive coach and all of his presentations have an inspirational component. He will customize a presentation specifically for your event using any and all of the following successful keynote presentations.

High-Performance Leadership: Supercharging Global Growth.
How to ignite growth in your highest potential managers and reinvent the way you think about leadership. Based on hundreds of face-to-face interviews with the world's most successful leaders, this keynote debunks the myths of leadership and provides a five-part framework for building emotional and intellectual commitment from your leaders.

World-class Teamwork: The Six Secrets of World Class Teams
Most companies understand more about their external customers than what inspires internal employee teams to be accountable to serving those clients and meeting the dynamic needs of the organization and rapidly changing markets. Most companies frankly assume too much about what their teams know (or don't know) about working together as teams. This keynote will supercharge your team for long-term growth.

Managing Change: Merger Integration & Cultural Transformation
In an era of extraordinary change and dynamic markets, Mark reveals the secret to integrating cultures based on a decade of study by our team of Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley and Wharton researchers. We've discovered the difference between those who enjoy long-term success vs. those who must settle for temporary achievement. The answer lies in an understanding of the five simple strategic drivers of corporate transformation. This interactive session shows you how.

Winning Customer Loyalty: From product focus to Customer Solutions
Winning loyalty from new clients in a rapidly growing and competitive global economy has never been more challenging. What special traits do the best and brightest have in common and how do they inspire their organizations to create "lifecycle" client partnerships that make them inseparable from their customers?

We launched a global study to find out. In this fascinating and fun presentation, bestselling author Mark Thompson shares real stories about extraordinary and not-so-good customer service teams based on two decades as an executive coach serving many industries, including Dell, Best Buy, Microsoft, Agilent, from Charles Schwab, MasterCard, VISA, Wells Fargo, Mellon and Bank of New York.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation
World-class innovation takes more courage than ever before in history. In an interactive session with the audience, Mark explodes the myths of entrepreneurship and unravels the essential elements of long-term success, using video and audio clips of actual personal interviews with some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs and "intra-preneurs" within organizations.

Built to Last: From Great to Lasting
One of the three top bestselling business classics in history, Built to Last reveals the essential differences between organizations that are enduring, values-based enterprises that will grow for the long haul in a wide range of industries.

Wealth Built to Last: Enduring Lessons of the World's Richest Families
In addition to serving as a board member of major public companies and Chief Communications Officer of Charles Schwab, Mark is a successful investor and entrepreneur who has worked with and interviewed the world's wealthiest families, including more than 20 billionaires. How do these people create their wealth, protect it, grow it and survive the challenges of the super-rich. This fascinating presentation provides an inside look into wealth management.

Relationships Built to Last/Creating a Life That Matters
Mark has produced personal interviews with hundreds of extraordinary people who have built long-lasting relationships in a world obsessed with short-term rewards. This fun and enlightening keynote is based on his extraordinary research and his interviews for public broadcasting and the bestselling book and television special Success Built to Last.